FLASH: Poup-up window Plug and Play: portals.home.mindspring.com/popup/popup.html

[Laura Mollett]

Hello Everyone,


Well I felt bad that I couldn't make Javascript popup windows work in MSIE

4.5 on the mac, so I decided to make something that would :)

http://portals.home.mindspring.com/popup/popup.html


This is a plug 'n play (I guess :) for Flash popup windows. They seem to be

working fine for me (thanks to Robert, Helen, and Karen) in NN 4.7 and MSIE

4.5 Mac OS 7.6. Please let me know if it doesn't work for someone.


Advantages:

Doesn't use Javascript

Works in any browser with a Flash 4 plug-in (I think)

Frames will automatically resize to the size of your movie (you don't need

to type in height and width).


Disadvantages:

The popups won't go outside of your movie size. You need to set the movie

big enough to accomodate them (although they will drag out, but then the

edges disappear :)

You can only have one at a time (at the moment... if this is any use to

people, I'll fix that :)

You can't utilize browser functions.


I'd love testing, both of the swf and the fla (are the instructions clear?

etc.). If anyone finds it any use, I'll add more and nicer frames and other

functionality like ones for slide shows and ones that popup more than one

window and autofocus and other stuff like that... If anyone has any

suggestions for other things, please send them my way. Or any other little

libraries like this that might be interesting.


Oh, if you want to see exactly how a movie loads into a movie clip, you can

tell from the fla. The movie is loaded into a clip called "scene" which is

set with its center in the upper left corner, then scene is put in another

movie clip and centered within the frame. (If you don't set it like that,

the frame won't properly surround the movie clip.)


Thanks!

Laura


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